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The Sheep River Health Trust is responsive, adaptable and accountable volunteer community organization which exists to achieve these goals in support of healthcare in our community. We support the provision of quality healthcare services, programs and equipment in our communities. We contribute to community health promotion through education and supporting preventative programming. We engender public confidence through responsible governance, with strategic transparent and achievable operational plans.

Calcutta House exists to provide housing and highly supportive services for people living with AIDS in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley region.This mission is based on the premise that housing is the foundation for the most effective and compassionate treatment, management, and prevention of the disease. Customized support services, responsive to the individual, are delivered with the conviction that self-empowerment will advance attainable goals enabling a resident to realize his/her full potential while adhering to treatment and care plans.

Typically ANIQUEM patients are very poor – CAFA programmes provide support Including: CAFA transport program provides transport (bus fare and meal) for patient and caregiver to come to clinic on regular basis without which many patients could not afford to visit the clinic at all CAFA Recreation program provides 2 3-day camps per year for up to 40 burn survivors providing friendly camp surroundings where the children can relax 'and just be kids'. CAFA Surgery provides for individual surgery support for identified cases. Surgery takes place at clinics in Lima. CAFA recently collaborated with ANIQUEM and INTERPLAST on a 10 day campaign corrective surgery campaign at a hospital near Lima. Eighteen ANIQUEM patients were treated with all transport and accommodation funded by CAFA. CAFA capacity building supports local or international specialised training to improve skills of staff CAFA has started support for burn prevention including a prevention brochure and pos

Seven Oaks General Hospital provides Acute, Emergency, Surgery, and Wellness services for the entire Winnipeg health region. It is a major centre for Orthopedic Trauma Surgery in southern Manitoba and a hub for Kidney Health services for the province of Manitoba. The Hospital is a pioneer in wellness initiatives that are enriching the quality of care. Seven Oaks General Hospital Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that is committed to supporting the programs, equipment, and projects that make our hospital a leader in innovation, prevention, and continuity of care.

We are the people who are here, day or night, 24/7, to answer the calls from those who are reaching out for help. Callers may have simple questions. Or they may be in crisis. Either way, with 181 volunteers answering nearly 40,000 calls a year, we provide an integral, important and vital service in the community. At any given time of day or night, people out there require our help. Whether they’re depressed, lonely, overwhelmed or so distraught they’re contemplating suicide, they will find a supportive and caring person at our end of the line. People of all ages, races, genders and social-economic groups call our confidential service. Patient, understanding and giving, Distress Centre volunteers are trained to listen, talk through concerns or provide community resource information. In other words, whatever is needed, our volunteers are there. What else do we do? We provide training for other community groups. Our renowned trainers provide training on diverse topics.

Abbott House builds lasting foundations under children, families and adults with complex needs. We support over 2,800 children in foster care, unaccompanied minors, adults with developmental disabilities, and struggling families in the New York Metropolitan area and the Hudson Valley by providing safety, promoting healing and restoring hope. The heart of our work is dedicated to helping human beings recover from deep trauma or intervening to prevent trauma in the first place. Our vision is to make promising futures a reality.

The Arthritis Research Centre of Canada (ARC) is an international leader in medical research on Canada’s most debilitating chronic disease. ARC conducts consumer-driven clinical research to help reduce the burden of arthritis, and give people with arthritis better, more timely, and cost-effective solutions for living with their disease. With research centres in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec, ARC’s research is making a critical difference in arthritis diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, care outcomes and quality of life issues for millions of arthritis patients.

Helen Keller International is a global health organization dedicated to eliminating preventable vision loss, malnutrition, and diseases of poverty.Co-founded by Helen Keller—and guided by her fierce optimism and belief in human potential—the organization delivers life changing health solutions to vulnerable families in places where the need is great but access to care is limited.In the U.S., Africa, and Asia, Helen Keller’s proven, science-based programs empower people to create opportunities in their own lives and build lasting change.

At more than 150 years old, the YMCA proudly continues to serve people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. We are dedicated to helping people attain good overall health through prevention, rehabilitation, self-management and the social support needed to grow in spirit, mind and body. In everything that we do, we try to inspire a sense of responsibility to each other and the global community. We believe in leveraging the power of one for the benefit of the collective good. My Y. For Good.

Working together, we will meet our goals: • To increase public and professional awareness of epilepsy as a universal, treatable brain disorder; • To change attitudes, dispel myths and raise epilepsy to a new plane of acceptability in the public domain; • To promote public and professional education about epilepsy; • To identify the needs of people with epilepsy on a national and regional basis; • To encourage governments of health to address the needs of people with epilepsy, including awareness, education, diagnosis, treatment, care, services and prevention; • To fund the best epilepsy research in Canada.

Nova Scotia-Gambia Association is a non-profit organization developed and supported by Nova Scotians working together with Canadians and Gambians for the welfare of youth in West Africa. NSGA is delivering nation-wide school-based peer health educaion programs focusing on healthy relationships, HIV/AIDS prevention, and other diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. In the last four years, NSGA's programs have reached more than 100,000 students in over 200 schools; and, as well, 1,000 villages throughout The Gambia.

As a provincially-organized governed by a volunteer Board of Directors for over 20 years, BIANS blends brain injury survivors, family members, professionals and other interested individuals to provide a community of support and hope for others affected by brain injury. BIANS has a community network of groups operating in Halifax, Truro, Annapolis Valley and Lunenburg County. Activities include: information source; brain injury prevention and education; presentations to government and political parties; creating and maintaining partnerships with stakeholders